Ciência é 10

It is specialization course for graduate Science teachers of the Brazilian public system working in the 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, and 9^th grades of basic education. It is a Distance Learning modality course approved by CAPES and certified by the Ministry of Education.

1- Participant Institutions

2- Como se inscrever

3- Learn More

4- O My Profile

5- Materiais

5- Contact

6- Videos

1- Participant Institutions

The selective processes take place from September 2019 on and candidates can apply in any of 19 participant institutions.

2- Applications

3- Learn More

What it is
Science a Plus is a specialization course for Science teachers working from the 6^th to the 9^th grades of the public Brazilian education system. The Science A Plus course is approved by CAPES and certified by the Ministry of Education. https://www.ciencianaescola.gov.br/app/ciencianaescola/sobreoprograma 

Objectives
Science A Plus offer tools, contents and methodologies that might contribute to the quality of everyday classrooms activities of Science teachers. The course takes as a starting point the concept of science as investigation and proposes new challenges for pedagogical activities.

How it works
Science A Plus is divided into three modules, with a total of 480 hours. Module Nº 1 consists in150 hours of study; Module nº 2, of 240 hours and Module nº 3, with 90 hours. It is based in four axes: LIFE, ENVIRONMENT, UNIVERSE and TECHNOLOGY, always stressing creative and transversal approaches.

Target
Teachers from the public educational basic education system who wish to offer high standard creative activities for his/her students in the classroom , thus helping in the individual and social development of his/her pupils and and broadening their interest in scientific knowledge.

Innitiative
Science A Plus is a initiative of the Ministry of Education, through the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education – CAPES. The Open University of Brazil, operating from CAPES´ structure, promotes partnerships between the federal, state and municipal levels of government and higher learning institutions in the Country, thus stimulating the Distance Learning modality of learning. Priorities in vacancies are given to basic school teachers.

Institutions
There are 20 higher learning institutions involved in the Science A Plus program, and the course is offered in its full in the 133 Open University Centers spread throughout Brazil. They consist of pedagogical, technological and administrative spaces for teaching and learning of courses and programs offeredby the Open University of Brazil. They are located preferentially in mid-size towns – with population between 20 to 50 thousand inhabitants with adequate academic facilities.

• Module 1: Science A Plus, An Introduction (30 h)
• Module 2: Asking and Answering, Always Gaining (240 h)
  
• Module 3: Talking from Experience (90 h)

4- My Profile

• Grantees
  
• Higher Learning Institutions
  
• Press

5- Pedagogical Material

• Documents: Decree
• Support Material: Logo and Pedagogical project
  
• Literature: Bibliographical references

 Literature: Bibliographical References 

6- Contact

Talk to us

7- Videos

• Professor Nelson
• Professor Anderson Correia talks about the Program 
  
• Carlos Lenuzza fala and Ciência é 10
• Ciência é 10: Launching of Public Notices